Chapter 21: Violence in the Village
This hillside is sparsely populated and largely untapped.
And Fei Laohan lives here alone, raising a lot of cattle and sheep.
Yang Mu followed what Aunt Wang said, and found a fenced yard all the way.
There are only two thatched houses in the courtyard, and next to it is a large sheepfold, which is densely packed with sheep, not to mention hundreds of heads.
There are about a dozen cows in the yard, including two calves.
"Uncle Fei!" Yang Mu stood outside the fence yard and called for someone.
An old man dressed in wool and shoulders, carrying a dry tobacco pouch, came out of the house, his face badly disfigured, and he looked terrible.
Yang Mu waved his hand at Fei Laohan.
Fei Laohan walked over slowly, looking at the little girl in front of him with some surprise.
Since he was disfigured, this is the first person to see that he is not afraid.
Yang Mu explained his intention.
"Uncle Fei, do you have any extra milk here, can you sell it to me? If it's good, I'll do it every day. ”
In the nearby villages, if a woman has a baby and has no milk, she will also come to buy milk.
Fei Laohan took a puff of dry tobacco and asked, "How much do you want?" ”
Yang Mu said: "Ten catties, is there one?" ”
Fei Laohan turned his head and glanced at his two cows that had just given birth, thought for a while, and said, "I will sell you five catties at most." ”
He pointed to a big-bellied cow again and said, "When it is born, it can sell you ten catties a day." ”
Yang Mu was overjoyed, five catties of cows in the early stage were enough, and ten catties in the later stage were enough.
Fei Laohan brought a small bucket, squeezed half a bucket of milk to Yang Mu, and said, "Fifty Wen, come and bring the bucket back for me next time." ”
Yang Mu calculated, fifty wen, that is, ten yuan in the previous life, which was already a very fair price in ancient times when milk was scarce.
Yang Mu gave the money and carried half a bucket of milk over the mountains.
When passing by the river, Yang Mu put away the fishing nets, which contained more than a dozen crucian carp of different sizes and some river shrimp.
When she went down the mountain, she dug up some spring bamboo shoots and then went down the mountain to go home.
When he returned home with a full harvest, Zhou Dazhuang had just wrapped two broken mats around the kitchen.
Yang Mu thanked in his heart, and when he let Zhou Dazhuang go home, he brought two fish back.
After that, Yang Mu took two fish, led Yang Shishi, and went to the patriarch's house first, changed the big house from the genealogy of the old Yang family, and set up his own door.
After that, she took Yang Shiyou to Lizheng's house.
Yang Shishi saw a few friends from the same village playing with stones in the square at the door of Lizheng's house, so he leaned over to play.
It is also common for children in the village to run around the village, so Yang Mu let Yang Shi go to find his friends and entered Lizheng's house by himself.
Lizheng's daughter-in-law Ma was cooking with her daughter-in-law, and when she saw Yang Mu delivering fish to her family, she was so happy that the corners of her mouth were laughing to the root of her ears.
The granddaughter-in-law is in confinement, and it is the time when she needs to drink crucian carp soup.
Ma praised Yang Mu and called her husband to come out to receive her.
Li Zheng walked out of the house, saw that it was Yang Mu, smiled all over his face, and enthusiastically put the female household on Yang Mu.
From then on, Yang Mu will be the real pillar of the family and a family member.
Yang Mu happily went out with his household registration, and saw that Yang Shi seemed to be arguing with a few friends, and hurriedly walked over.
Yang Shishi had tears in his eyes, stubbornly not letting it out.
Yang Shi stomped his feet angrily, "Little Fulu (gourd) four (is) mine!" ”
One of the three children was older, who should be in his teens, and he held a gourd of Yang Shi and said proudly: "I grabbed it, it's mine!" ”
Several children made grimaces around Yang Shishi, "Boys wear skirts, are they ashamed?" ”
Yang Shishi's small arm fluttered behind him and shouted: "Nosi (yes)!" Not four (yes)! ”
In fact, Yang Shishi was not wearing a skirt, but wearing Yang Xiaohua's red cotton jacket.
Yang Mu knew the big kid with the small gourd, it was Yang Wu, the youngest grandson of the patriarch's family.
Yang Mu stepped forward and touched Yang Shishi's little head to soothe his emotions.
Yang Shishi was originally stubborn and refused to cry, but when he turned his head and saw his sister, he immediately couldn't hold back his tears.
"Sister, Yang Wu robbed my Fulu (gourd)!"
It was a gift from his sister to him, and this morning his brother-in-law carved words on it - stone.
It was a gourd with his name, and he thought of it as his little treasure.
Yang Mu nodded and said, "Stones, our own things, we have to take care of them." If someone robs you, grab it back! ”
Yang Wu relied on his grandfather to be the patriarch, and he was a little bully among the children in the village, and often bullied other children.
Now that it is in the hands of Yang Mu, it can be regarded as unlucky.
Yang Mu turned his head to Yang Wu and said, "Return the little gourd to Yang Shishi." ”
Although Yang Wu is more domineering among children, he is still more afraid of adults than a child.
It's just that Yang Mu is petite, and he has always been submissive and doesn't like to talk outside, so Yang Wu is not afraid of Yang Mu.
He threw the little gourd aside, and said angrily: "Don't give it!" Have the ability to pick it up yourself! What a thing, I'm not rare! ”
Yang Mu turned his head and looked around, walked a few steps, picked up a wooden stick, looked at Yang Wu, and said with a serious expression: "Pick it up!" ”
When Yang Wu saw Yang Mu holding a stick, he took a few steps back with a weak heart, and made a gesture to run.
Yang Mu blocked Yang Wu's way with a strong walk, and ordered condescendingly: "Pick it up!" ”
Violence in villages, like violence in schools, cannot be tolerated.
Yang Wu saw that the back road was blocked, his face became a little frightened, and he turned his head to look at the small gourd that was thrown in the mud, and he was a little hesitant.
Teenage children already know what face is.
Yang Mu was never used to it, pointed at the muddy little gourd with a wooden stick, and still repeated the sentence, "Pick it up!" ”
Yang Wu gritted his teeth, and in the midst of being beaten and humiliated, he chose the latter.
He walked over with humiliation, picked up the small gourd, and threw it to Yang Shishi.
The small gourd, with mud, smashed on Yang Shishi's clothes, and then fell to the ground again.
Yang Shi wanted to bend down to pick it up, but was stopped by Yang Mu.
Yang Mu took a deep breath and said angrily to Yang Wu: "You don't dare to beat you when I do? ”
Yang Wu was so frightened that his face turned white, but he was unconvinced by his neck.
Yang Mu sneered, his hands were forced, and the stick with the thickness of his arm was broken.
She threw Yang Wu a broken piece of wood and said, "If you are not convinced, we can fight first." ”
Yang Wu was already frightened by her breaking wood with her bare hands, and immediately lost his temper completely, where did he dare to pick up the broken wood?
The two children on the left and right had already been scared away by Yang Mu, and Yang Wu didn't care about the child's face, so he reluctantly walked to Yang Shishi's side, picked up the small gourd, and handed it to Yang Shishi.
Yang Mu stood behind Yang Wu and said leisurely: "Wipe it clean." ”
Yang Wu's eyes were full of tears when he was disobedient, he had never been so aggrieved when he grew so big!
He wiped the small gourd clean with his sleeve and handed it to Yang Shi again.
Yang Mu spoke again, "Apologize!" ”
Yang Wu pursed his lips, bit his lip, and did not speak.
Yang Mu snorted coldly: "When you rob other people's things, why don't you think that there will be this moment?" Apologize! ”
Yang Shi stretched out his hand to pick up the little gourd, but Yang Mu said, "Shishi, I have to wait for his apology!" ”
Yang Shishi's hand froze in the air.
Yang Wu finally shed tears, and he trembled and said, "I'm sorry. "The sound was so low that it was almost inaudible.
Yang Shi took the small stone, and looked left and right very cherished, his face full of satisfaction that he had lost and regained.
Yang Mu sighed, no longer embarrassed Yang Wu, and pulled the stone home to cook.
Waiting for the figure of Yang Mu's sister and brother to disappear into the ancestral house, Yang Wu finally opened his mouth wide and cried.
He hadn't been so wronged in nearly a decade of his life!
He wants to tell his eldest brother Yang Wen and let his eldest brother avenge him!
Although Yang Wu is not very old, he also knows that this kind of thing cannot be told to his father and grandfather, but to be told to his eldest brother.
Yang Shishi, who returned home, still had tears on his face, but his expression was very happy.
He jumped up and down to find Mu Dalang, stuffed the small gourd into Mu Dalang's hand, and asked his brother-in-law to put it on for himself.
Mu Dalang looked at the mud on the gourd, wiped it clean with a handkerchief, and asked, "Why is the rope of the little gourd broken?" ”
Yang Shi tilted his head and said, "Yang Wu is broken!" He also robbed my Fulu (gourd)! My sister wants me to come back! ”
Mu Dalang's eyes sank, and after reconnecting the rope, he gave Yang Shi to wear around his neck.
Yang Shishi seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness just now, and happily went to play with the panda.